I have never tried to import fbx files into Maya. Importing them into XSI works fine though, never experienced any crashes.

There seems to be something weird going on with UV sets and fbx files from Modo though. Although all objects only had 1 UV set in Modo, after importing the fbx file into XSI there suddenly were about 10 UV sets, partly with an actually UV layout/ projection in them that I definitely never created. Just a minor nuisance, deleted the extra ones and that was it.

No idea if Maya crashing has anything to do with that. Maybe check for UV sets that you haven't created and delete those before doing any edits to the mesh.

You could also try to import the fbx into blender and see if it also crashes (there is a fbx file importer for Blender I think). Export it again from Blender and try to import that new file into Maya.

Originally Posted by MileDream:i just make sure they are both in meters, but its still the same.

when I press F in maya to center the object, it shows up for one second and it disappeared, what does that tell me??

Two things when working with Maya and FBX is to bake your whole animation, that is why is showing the one second you are animating or maybe in your you have the timeline setup for one second.
ANother is to try to export as OBJ not FBX and if you do so than select the object you wish to export making sure there is not animated for cameras works when you baked your camera animation to frames.
Try that and let us know.
Edgard

Originally Posted by MileDream:i just make sure they are both in meters, but its still the same.

when I press F in maya to center the object, it shows up for one second and it disappeared, what does that tell me??

yeah. is the camera clipping. you have to select the camera, go to the attributes and set the far clip plane way higher. just add one more zero, You should add one for the near clipping too, otherwise you may see artifacts.
thing is, the cube is way too big.

Originally Posted by MileDream:yes, i found out the cube was indeed too big, for some reason the cube measurement was in km, even thou I set the standard to meters under preferences.

can I ask what does baking the animation do? I have a little technical knowledge gap to bridge, so forgive me for asking silly questions.

i think using obj isnt an viable option, since I am currently working under a modo - maya - 3dsmax workflow and I need to include all the mesh, texture, animation information.

Records the position/scale/rotation/point level animation/etc in time of every frame of the animation of a selected object such as camera,lights,meshes these saves you for complex simulations such as IK solvers,particles simulations,etc.
If you want to scrub the your animation timeline and check for details these is the best approach to avoid further calculations.If you want to render out a simulation over a network is also recommended perform these type of operations.

There could be a far better extended explanation but these what the basic concept is.
Edgard

Originally Posted by Leionaaad:Thanks.
I think i kinda solved the problem myself, I went to Geometry>Polygons>Unify. This solved the crashes. Looks like modo is creating some polygons where there shouldn't be.

From what I've read around the forums is that having any lone/floating vertices in your Modo scene will cause problems when exporting/importing .fbx's between Modo and Maya. It will cause Maya to crash. Deleting polygons in Modo will remove the polys but leave the vertices in place - so I usually just select/remove the stray verts via the statistics window before exporting.

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